What was it like playing Mega Man for the first time? I didn't play the game because I wasn't born when it came out

What was it like playing Mega Man for the first time? I didn't play the game because I wasn't born when it came out.

You can still play it for the first time retard

1 honestly sucked and it was a miracle it got a sequel that basically became the Megaman formula that we all know and love.

I played anything back then, so I enjoyed it more or less like almost any other game.

I found it extremely hard, even for Nintendo games.

Fuck off, peasant. 1 is a fantastic game. The Cutman theme intimately started playing in my head when I saw this thread, that's how good it is. Shit, I bet you never even mastered the jumping section on Gutsman because you're such a casual cunt.

1 sucks but mm on the gb is top tier

I actually didn't get far in my first rental of Mega Man as I couldn't get past Ice Man's stage or beat Fire Man. Later on after I rented and finished MM2 I went back and got to Wily's Castle only to get stuck as I didn't know about the Magnet Beam (I always bypassed it in my many many tries at Elec Man's stage as I thought it was an enemy).

By the time I actually finished the game Mega Man III was already out, so I didn't get to experience finishing them in release order. Didn't even know about the pause trick until ages later, so I had to actually memorize the Yellow Devil's pattern (and still constantly died).

I miss the days when I had endless patience for video games, most likely because I rented everything and I had to get my full weekend's worth of gaming out if them.

... Like a warm bag of... Sand..

My first was Megaman 3. It was way too hard for me, and I coudln't beat a single robot master, so I eventually went back to Ducktales. But I thought the music was fucking awesome and the graphics amazing.

Later I'd play Megaman 2. Me and my friend would play with the hue knob on the TV and make Megaman every other color. We thought it was so cool.

Game was hard so we used Game Genie for unlimited health, and thought were so clever until we got fucked over by the Buebeam Trap.

they felt hard as fuck and everyone i knew who owned them never beat them and hardly played them but still liked them

>any Mega Man above MM1 being hard

I don't remember, my fist one was 6 and I was really picky as kid, so since I kept renting it I guess it was great

Just buy Megaman Legacy. It's a great collection, and comes with kickin' tunes and a cheat sheet if you're feeling like a weenie

I was born in 87 so I watched my older cousins play it. I played them in the last few years and 2 is the best one in my opinion. Great bosses, soundtrack. They're all good in their own way.

can't remember because it was like 20+ years ago. I know my first one was 2 and i fell in love with it immediately though

(I'm nearly 31)

It fucking sucked you died a lot and it didn't feel responsive.

Do you have any other questions I can help you with?

Imagine this never got any sequel and mega man would forever be known as that one shoddy platformer from Capcom that never took off

>it's a great collection
You're better off emulating them on literally anything.

>tfw youngfags hate MM1 because they don't have the patience to git gud at it

It's a pretty solid platformer, just that it takes some practice, much like any NES game.

>it didn't feel responsive
Mega Man is one of the tightest controlling games ever. You press the d-pad, you move. You let go, you stop. Simple.

Yeah it was more about how long he floated in the air when he jumped. Also thanks for criticizing my 25 year old memories with your opinions thanks.

Not that user, but I always felt that MM1 Rock felt a bit slippery and more heavy than he did in all later games.

Okay, and? Not buying it doesn't affect me in anyway.

Megaman 2 was the best one until Megaman X which perfected the formula and is objectively the best Megaman game

Like not even two seconds? And he drops like a rock. He also stops his ascent basically as soon as you let go.

Even the past collections are better and have more games to play.

The PS2 anniversary collection blows this new one out of the water. I'm glad I only payed 5 bucks for this new one.

About time I find somebody else who agrees that MMX was the pinnacle of the entire franchise.

Even as a kid I knew that something was wrong with the game. It was a non stop annoyance.
>jump on a platform 3 pixels wide
>a random enemy enters from off screen in your exact landing trajectory so you would plunge towards death
Etc etc. The wily stage is literally the last straw. Top tier difficulty and tedium for the sake of difficulty and tedium. The og artificial difficulty.

Because he did. It is hard for many nostalgia fags to admit it, but first megaman was just "dude let's make the most annoying and hard game with random platforms floating and hoaming in mid air enemies and bullets lmao"

Okay, then OP should look into the past collections.

True, though Magna Centipede was the coolest robot master

MMX is basically perfect.
MM4 is better than MM2 though.

Megaman and Bass can have some tough parts, and 10 exists, 9 is a joke compared to those two.

When I think of classic Mega Man I always forget that MM&Bass and 9 and 10 exist.

I played it first in like 2010-2014 sometime

It was fun, I liked it.
Played 1 through 8
8 sukt
5 sukt a bit too.

Me and a buddy would attempt to beat it on weekends once in awhile we could get through most of the levels but I could only ever beat cutman. He could beat like 3 of the robot masters. I've gotten to wills Lvl but have never been able to finish him off to this day...